"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
“A U.S. intelligence report declassified in mid-December 2023 estimated that 315,000 Russian troops had been killed or wounded in Ukraine. If accurate, the figure would represent 87% of the roughly 360,000 troops Russia had before the war, according to the report.”
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I will never feel as though I fit in this world, a place where the so-called leaders of humanity callously throw away the lives of their own people–slaughtering the innocent along the way–in their own broken, vileness.
There is no goodness from such death.
We have the ability, today, to be so much more than we have ever been. We can realize the greatest of human potential. Yet we continue to choose death.
Had I only been born in a later age where I could spend my one life in an era that is extraordinarily glorious. Presuming of course that our species would survive itself to such a time.
I wonder how many of them (for both sides) were involuntarily recruited.
From what I’ve read, Ukrainians have largely volunteered. However, the gov started legislation for a draft so they can alleviate soldiers. Not sure what’s come of it though.
I doubt that number will be significant for Ukraine. Those that really did not want to fight, found ways out of the country…(except some very public cases)